1885 – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי

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1885

Events

January–March

January 3–4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force in northern Vietnam.
January 4 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.
January 17 – Mahdist War in Sudan: British victory at the Battle of Abu Klea.
January 20 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents a roller coaster.
January 24 – Irish terrorists damage Westminster Hall and the Tower of London with dynamite.
January 26 – Mahdist War in Sudan: Troops loyal to the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad conquer Khartoum. The British commander Charles George Gordon is killed.
February 5 – King Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal possession.
February 7 – The play La vida alegre y muerte triste by dramatist José Echegaray opens.
February 9 – The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
February 16 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The index stood at a level of 62.76, and represented the dollar average of 14 stocks: 12 railroads and two leading American industries.
February 21 – United States President Chester A. Arthur dedicates the Washington Monument.
February 23
- Sino-French War: France gains an important victory over China in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of modern-day Vietnam.
- An English executioner fails after several attempts to hang John Babbacombe Lee, sentenced for the murder of his employer Emma Keyse; Lee's sentence is commuted to life imprisonment.
February 26 – The final act of the Berlin Conference regulates European colonization and trade in the "scramble for Africa".
February 28 – February concludes without having a full moon.
March 3 – A subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), is incorporated in New York.
March 4 – Grover Cleveland succeeds Chester A. Arthur as President of the United States.
March 7 – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madrid is founded.
March 14 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado opens at the Savoy Theatre in London.
March 26
- The Prussian government, motivated by Otto von Bismarck, expels all ethnic Poles and Jews without German citizenship from Prussia in the Prussian deportations.
- North-West Rebellion in Canada by the Métis people, led by Louis Riel, begins with the Battle of Duck Lake.
- First legal cremation in England: Mrs Jeannette C. Pickersgill of London, "well known in literary and scientific circles", is cremated by the Cremation Society at Woking, Surrey.
March 30 – The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident, which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
March 31 – The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

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1885 – מילון אנגלי-עברי

1885 – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי